Climate Casino: Global Cooling Or Global Warming, Place Your Bets
Last week a spasm of media coverage including a New York times article by Andrew Revkin followed the journal Nature publishing a study (abstract here) predicting that in the two time periods of 2000 - 2010 and 2005 - 2015 the Earth is and will be experiencing a period of global cooling rather than the man-made global warming trend that most of us have come to expect.
The German team that wrote the Nature paper made its predictions - which are for the Northern Hemisphere only - by running simulations of the global climate and tinkering with the conditions of the oceans in the simulations. The result, according to the Nature paper's authors:
"Global surface temperatures may not increase over the next decade as natural climate variations in the North Atlantic and tropical Pacific temporarily offset the projected anthropogenic warming."
Wanna bet? asks a group of climate scientists at the RealClimate commentary site.
It's very important to note that neither the German scientists (hailing from the Leibniz Institute of Marine Sciences and the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology) nor the international group at RealClimate are disputing that the overall long-term trend will be a warming earth.
Climate Casino: Global Cooling Or Global Warming, Place Your Bets : TreeHugger
Last week a spasm of media coverage including a New York times article by Andrew Revkin followed the journal Nature publishing a study (abstract here) predicting that in the two time periods of 2000 - 2010 and 2005 - 2015 the Earth is and will be experiencing a period of global cooling rather than the man-made global warming trend that most of us have come to expect.
The German team that wrote the Nature paper made its predictions - which are for the Northern Hemisphere only - by running simulations of the global climate and tinkering with the conditions of the oceans in the simulations. The result, according to the Nature paper's authors:
"Global surface temperatures may not increase over the next decade as natural climate variations in the North Atlantic and tropical Pacific temporarily offset the projected anthropogenic warming."
Wanna bet? asks a group of climate scientists at the RealClimate commentary site.
It's very important to note that neither the German scientists (hailing from the Leibniz Institute of Marine Sciences and the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology) nor the international group at RealClimate are disputing that the overall long-term trend will be a warming earth.
Climate Casino: Global Cooling Or Global Warming, Place Your Bets : TreeHugger